Jaina Temples of West Bengal

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6. McCutchion (Notes.) believes that the Siddheśvara Śiva temple at Bahulara in the Bankura
District originally was a Jaina shrine. Though the temple is built on a site, previously occupied
by the Jainas, no evidence is there to indicate that it ever belonged to them. 7. On account of the discovery of a few Jaina images at Sat Deoliya in the Burdwan District,
a brick temple at this village is sometimes identified as a Jaina shrine (P. Banerji in Jaina Art and Architecture, Ed. A. Ghosh, New Delhi 1974, Vol.1, p.154). But unconfirmed report regarding the discovery of Brahmanical images also from the same site makes the Jaina association of this temple uncertain. For a brief description of the temple at Sat Deoliya see S. K. Saraswati, Architecture of Bengal, Book-I, Calcutta 1976, pp.57f.
8. Beglar, pp.193-95. 9. Archaeological Survey of India, Bengal Circle, Annual Report, 1902, p.14. 10. McCutchion, p. (38). 11. Ibid., p. (39)
12. Beglar, p. 194. 13. Ibid., Pl.XV. 14. See N. K. Bose, Canons of Orissan Architecture, Calcutta 1932, p.120.
15. Beglar, pp.189f. Bloch (Archaeological Survey of India, Bengal Circle, Annual Report, 1902,
p.14) failed to locate this particular village and commented that no ancient remains whatever
existed at a wellknown village of the same name, 16. Obviously, without understanding the import of Beglar's note, P. Banerji (his p.157) describes
it as an image of Aranātha'.
17. Bose, Canons., p.121. 18. W. W. Hunter, Statistical Account of Bengal, Vol.XVII, London 1877, p.299. 19. Beglar, p.182; Archaeological Survey of India, Bengal Circle, Annual Report, 1902, p.14. 20. McCutchion, p.(40).
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. R. D. Banerji, History of Orissa, Vol.II, Calcutta 1931, Plate facing p.128. 24. Debala Mitra, "Some Jaina Antiquities from Bankura, West Bengal," Journal of the Asiatic
Society, Letters, Vol.XXIV, No.2, 1958, p.131. 25. R. D. Banerji, Eastern Indian School of Medieval Sculpture, Delhi 1933, p.151.
26. S. K. Saraswati (op. cit., p.52 and f.n.8) refers us to Beglar's tour report (op. cit., pp.189f.)
for information regarding the temple at Deulbhira. In fact the site was unknown to Beglar and those pages of his report, supposed by Saraswati to contain an account of Deulbhira, actually